| 词条 | Allan G. Wyon |
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Allan Gairdner Wyon FRBS RMS (1882 - 26 February 1962) was a British die-engraver and sculptor and, in later life, vicar in Newlyn, Cornwall. Many of his works are memorials with a number located in British cathedrals.[1] Other, more decorative, works include the relief of a male figure representing the East Wind on the London Underground headquarters building at 55 Broadway above St. James's Park Underground Station.[1] BiographyWyon was born in 1882, the son of Allan Wyon FSA (1843–1907) and Harriet Gairdner.[3] Wyon's father, two of his uncles, his grandfather and his great-grandfather successively held the position of Chief Engraver of Seals to the monarch.[2] Wyon attended Highgate School and, like others in his family, studied sculpture in London from 1905 to 1909 at the Royal Academy.[3] From 1910 to 1911 he was an assistant sculptor to Hamo Thornycroft.[2] Between 1924 and 1930 he was Honorary Secretary of the Art Workers Guild. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and also worked as a die-engraver, but took Holy Orders in 1933. From 1936 until his retirement in 1955, he was vicar of St. Peters Church, Newlyn.[1] He married Eileen May Trench in 1910; they had one daughter.[1] He had three sisters, Olive, and two others. One an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister. WorksWyon exhibited a wide range of sculptures, busts medals and engravings at the Royal Academy. He designed commemorative and memorial medals for the Masons, the London Chamber of Commerce, and Lloyd's.[1] Sculptured memorials in Salisbury Cathedral by Wyon include those to:[1]
Other memorials include those to:[1]
Other works:
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|date=27 February 1962|title=Obituaries – The Rev. Allan Wyon|newspaper=The Times|issue=55326|page=15|url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/115/825/64767165w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS252535387&dyn=3!zoom_2?sw_aep=kccl|accessdate=2009-06-04}} {{commons category|Allan Gairdner Wyon}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyon, Allan G}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64499 |title= Wyon family (per. c.1760–1962), die-engravers and medallists |accessdate= 2009-06-04 |last= Attwood |first=Philip|year= 2004 |work= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher= Oxford University Press |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/64499 }} 3. ^Wyon, Allan Gairdner, L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Volume VI, London 1916, p.580-581. 4. ^{{cite book|last=Francis|first=Peter|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton Publications|page=177|isbn=978-1-909644-11-3}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|pages=191–192}} 6. ^{{Cite web|title = The School Seal {{!}} London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine {{!}} LSHTM|url = http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/seal/index.html|website = www.lshtm.ac.uk|accessdate = 2015-09-25|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111021072515/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/seal/index.html|archive-date = 2011-10-21|dead-url = yes|df = }} 8 : 1882 births|1962 deaths|English sculptors|English male sculptors|20th-century English Anglican priests|British medallists|People educated at Highgate School|20th-century British sculptors |
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